Article ID: CBB243265408

Domesticated Animals on Exhibit at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1900–1928 (2019)

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In 1905 the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University began planning for a new domesticated animals exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder Louis Agassiz. The resulting displays of variation and heredity in poultry, pigeons, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs proved surprisingly popular to museumgoers. Some of these specimens still exist in the museum’s storage facilities, namely a series of poultry donated by the biologist Charles B. Davenport and an elaborate set of guinea pigs from the experimental evolutionist William E. Castle. Situating these domesticated animal displays within academic and popular cultures of poultry fancying, animal breeding, and evolutionary science reveals how a nineteenth-century museum known for its ties to anti-evolutionary principles attempted to modernize its public exhibits.

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Authors & Contributors
Aragón, Santiago
Strekopytov, S.
Hans-Jörg Wilke
Uwe Albrecht
Campbell, Gordon Lindsay
Beech, Mark
Concepts
Natural history
Taxidermy
Animals
Zoology
Museums
Domestication
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Ancient
Places
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
United States
Spain
Middle and Near East
Madrid (Spain)
West Africa
Institutions
Harvard University
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
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